Portable Station for iPod

Hey Guys,
I plan to buy an iPod touch with 32 Gigabyte. For this iPod I want to by some Accesouirs and a portable Dockingstation. But I have no idea wich Dockingstation would fit. Can you help me?
The Dockingstation should:
-charge it self whyle connected with Ac!! So that it doesn't need batteries (important!)
-charge the iPod
-have a great sound
what would fit best for me? I would go until max. 200$
Thank you!

Go to the Apple store : http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shopipod/ipodaccessories?mco=OTY2ODQwNw
Or some other store and look at the options. Look for options that are compatible with ipod touch.

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H.264 is going to be slow. No doubt about that. It's still a new codec so it's expected to take a while to compress versus MPEG-4.
I remembered when MP3 was still new ... my 233 MHz P2 machine was just chugging along.
When Ogg Vorbis came along, I would expect the encoding time to be somewhat slower. I was right to a point but that was when I have yet to own a computer that's 1 GHz.
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I bought a Neo iPod docking station for my BMW and it used the iPod 60 GB (last generation) and it worked great – no problems.
Last week I bought the Classic iPod 160 GB and got the 'Connected to Accessory' problem using the docking station in my car.
No iPod screen and none of the controls on the iPod would work.
Thought about taking the iPod back.
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Go to your iPod Menu > Settings > Clicker and change the setting to "On"
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